One of America's first slave owners was black. Do his descendants get reparations?
House Democrats want taxpayers to fund reparations for the great-great-great-great grandchildren of black slaves. Former Democratic presidential candidate, Cory Booker, appeared as a witness during the first panel of a Juneteenth hearing on the proposal. "This is a very important hearing," he declared. "It is historic. It is urgent." At least seven other 2020 candidates have joined Booker in endorsing reparations for slavery, including Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, Julian Castro, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Beto O'Rourke. No country in history has ever paid reparations to the descendants of African slaves for their ancestors' servitude. Less than 4% of Africans sold in the Atlantic slave trade ended up in the present day United States. The plurality of captured Africans, a full 40%, wound up in Brazil. Yet neither Brazil nor any other country has ever attempted such a historic restitution. Democrats pressing for reparations have yet to answer